We are eager to let more people know about Tom’s latest book – Wherever I Choose – which is his “unauthorized biography” and is a very good read. How do we know? Everyone who has read it tells us so. We will be blogging often, sharing with you what we are doing, and letting you in on any travel plans we have.
We’re starting out with some excerpts from the Introduction of “Wherever I Choose!” to whet your appetite.
Tom Ecker was a teenager and needed a job. So he learned to balance an old push lawnmower on his chin, and people paid to see that.
Tom was put in charge of athletics programs in Iowa’s second largest public school district. He came up with a five-year plan to begin offering girls’ sports, showing the parents of daughters— and the nation — the way of the future.
Tom was captivated by word puzzles. So he created his own game, calling it Wuzzles, and spent the next fifteen years flogging the idea, trying to get someone to buy it. Finally, one newspaper did, then a syndicate. Thirty-five years later, the puzzles still are seen every day by millions of people around the world.
Tom Ecker is is the small-town Iowa boy who grew up to visit sixty-six countries on all seven Continents, who’s been at ten Olympic Games, leading tours to some, writing about others, and who, when he retired, figured out a way he and his wife, Carol, could cruise the world, for free.